Plant Flowering Trees In Your Garden

Having a beautiful flowering garden doesn’t have to be limited to just having flowering plants growing low to the ground. In fact, you can have a wonderful garden filled with colors and scents, yet not have any ground based standard garden areas in your landscape at all. How? By planting flowering trees.

Flowering trees are the best of many worlds. They grow tall to provide shade in the heat of summer. They provide beautiful colors in their leaves and foilage. Some of them even provide additional colors and textures in their bark too. And they produce flowers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Many flowering trees also produce wonderful scents around your home and yard too.

Like almost any type of garden plant, there are hundreds of different types of flowering trees you can choose from. And like other plants, each tree has it’s own particular location and growth requirements as well. Basic tree planting rules of thumb apply of course: Be careful not to plant a flowering tree under a power or other dangerous utility line; Be sure your tree isn’t planted so close to your home that it can cause structual damage as it matures; And be sure that the location you choose for your tree is one you can live with for a lifetime.

Flowering Dogwood trees are a wonderful sight to see, and they can be planted in both tree or smaller shrub form too. Cheroke Chief is one particularly beautiful variety which produces amazing red flowers in the spring, and vibrant bronze foilage in autumn. The Japanese dogwood tree is another beautiful variety. This one produces white flowers and red berries which are excellent bird food. The foilage on this one is a deep red or purple color in autumn.

Magnolias are another popular flowering tree, and the saucer Magnolias produce giant flower blooms up to ten inches wide. The blooms often open before the leaves even start to bud on these trees, and they tend to be a whitish pink color which are quite fragrant. Saucer magnolia trees tend to grow at least twenty feet high and wide, so they’re excellent for creating garden shade as well as protecting your home from the worst of the summer sun’s heat too. So they do grow so large though, you’ll want to make sure they have plenty of room in the location you choos to plant them.